Kerry Galusha

Experience:

Kerry Galusha is an associate attorney in Garfield & Hecht, P.C.’s Aspen office, where she focuses her practice in civil litigation. Kerry began her career as a law clerk for the Honorable Carolyn B. McHugh, while Judge McHugh sat on the Utah Court of Appeals, researching and drafting opinions in both criminal and civil appeals. She then entered private practice at a large international law firm, Reed Smith LLP, in San Francisco, California. During that time, Kerry litigated dozens of cases for financial institutions related to mortgage disputes and was involved in all phases of state and federal law and motion practice, discovery and settlement. Kerry also brings experience representing public pension fund fiduciaries to her commercial litigation practice. She has performed comprehensive legal analysis on fiduciary matters for California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), and other large public pensions systems throughout the state of California and “second chaired” pending litigation over the California Legislature’s pension reform statute, “PEPRA,” and the accompanying county-specific reform known as “AB 197.”

Education:

University of Pennsylvania (B.A., magna cum laude, 2005);

University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2010)